Special contract beween the Confederate Headquarters Volunteer and Conscript Bureau and H. M. Blake for Blake's slave, Squire, an 18-year-old male valued at $1,600.00, to be employed by the Confederate Army as a teamster. The order is issued by...
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Letter from Sarah Hamilton to her husband, John B. Hamilton. She is critical of the conscription, and remarks that "I have not got any man to stay with me."
Christopher Ammonss1970 selective service card shows his name and signature on one side and physical description on the reverse. The classification of IV-A would have exempted him from service (for those whose military obligation was completed, or...
Letter from Thomas Crutchfield Jr. to James R. Hood. Crutchfield makes an effort to prove his loyalty to the Union by recounting his opposition to secession, his informing the Federals of troop movements, his supplying of the Union army with...
Scrip money and employment note from the Confederate Iron Works of Washington County (now in Unicoi County), Tenn. Duff Green was the proprietor. Michael Morelock was employed by "Confederate Iron Works, to aid in the manufacture of Iron, etc., for...
